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by cleaver 12y ago
I don't care much for infrastructure that is separate from cars, unless it is completely separate. What I've seen in the USA is a sidewalk of sorts that is a few metres away from the road, but with driveways and access roads that
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by cleaver 12y ago
I recall anecdotal reports that Perl was faster than egrep in some cases. I never tested it myself and that was a long time ago—could be a bug that is long since fixed.
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by cleaver 12y ago
For a general-purpose problem, Perl won't be particularly fast. For a Perl-type problem (scanning and parsing big files), Perl is very fast. Doing a Perl-type problem in a general-purpose language would be considerably slower. However,
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by cleaver 12y ago
You don't have to go over the bars or go fast to get hurt. Back during my cycling days a teammate was out training on a quiet country road. He crossed wheels when a kid he was passing swerved. He hit his head, went into a coma and died
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by cleaver 12y ago
:) Years ago a colleague carefully crafted an ASCII escape sequence for VT320 terminals that would mess up the screen and program a function key to send a network-wide broadcast message. He sent a note to an admin... something like: "T
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If Web Development was Rocket Science(cleaver.ca)
1 points by cleaver 12y ago|0 comments
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by cleaver 12y ago
Like any skill, I'd suggest this requires practice. One way I found as an introvert was to join Toastmasters. I don't have a big fear of public speaking—I can do it if I have to, but being in practice makes a huge difference. I&#x
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by cleaver 12y ago
As a motorcyclist, I can sympathize... I become acutely aware of distracted drivers when I'm in traffic on two wheels. Like you say, it's a terrible idea for a lot of reasons, but I always admire a good hack.
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by cleaver 12y ago
Thank you. Now someone please take on "set up"/"setup" and "back up"/"backup".
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by cleaver 13y ago
On the first day of my first consulting gig, as I was getting set up, an argument ensued over which server I should be doing my work on. In my old job I would have got caught up in the nonsense. This time I could just say: "OK, you guy
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by cleaver 13y ago
> I bet the PM already knows it's unreasonable to ask for 100% quality. Yes. It sounds like a "give it 110%" sort of thing.
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by cleaver 13y ago
Making an espresso with a mostly manual machine is an enjoyable once or twice-daily ritual for me. The flavour is most important, but I actually enjoy the time spent making the coffee. However, each person may value the various aspects of c
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by cleaver 13y ago
I remember scratching my head at the numbers from Apple... The PowerPC chips were four times faster than Intel (or some such number). Then they released on Intel and it became twice as fast. (Of course, this might have been somewhat accurat
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by cleaver 13y ago
SQL is a bit deceptive in that it cloaks set-based operations in something apparently simple. Iterative operations are easier for most people to conceptualize—you could create a flow chart, whereas sets require a bit of math. Once you can t
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by cleaver 13y ago
Moustaches are twirling as we speak...
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by cleaver 13y ago
Sometimes I just need to confirm a particular attribute. I don't think W3S is very good, but I have been on the site enough times that I know I'll be in and out with what I need in about 10 seconds.
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by cleaver 13y ago
I've been trying to narrow in on that consistent moral philosophy for various ism's. I'm not sure I've gotten very close in most cases except the general concept of tribalism. Every ism seems to be willing to bend the
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by cleaver 13y ago
I gained a perspective that is a bit more in depth than the typical white guy. I went to university in a town in Canada where the police seemed to be very interested in guys with long hair. I had long hair. As a result, I got stopped, intim
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by cleaver 13y ago
Serious question: Would it be safe to say that not all self-professed libertarians agree on the definition of libertarianism? I've suspected this is the case.
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by cleaver 13y ago
And the first bar chart which is not zero-based! (groan)
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by cleaver 13y ago
I'm reminded of the author of BDS C compiler. He didn't know how other compilers worked using multiple passes, so he wrote one that ran in a single pass. The result was smaller (important in the 80's) and faster than other co
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by cleaver 13y ago
This doesn't strike me as a political question. Strong intelligence on foreign activities is the "right" side from an American perspective. It would be in the best interest of the nation and would be within the mandate of the
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by cleaver 13y ago
I've read that the most effective way for the state to control the public's behaviour is a combination of taxes and subsidies (sorry, don't recall the source). Simply tax bad behaviour and subsidize good behaviour. Other mean
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by cleaver 13y ago
My thought on the topic, after being shocked at the price, was that Apple must have some home automation products as their next big thing. 3.2B to head off Apple from creating the "iPod of home automation" is still a bargain.
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by cleaver 13y ago
I just reuse a foam soap pump bottle and fill with about 3 or 4 parts water to 1 part plain dish washing liquid (non-antibacterial, of course). I consider foam soap to be one of the great advances of the past few decades.
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by cleaver 13y ago
I think I recall that feature in Quicken, although I've long since sworn off using products from Intuit.
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by cleaver 13y ago
I'd say the very fact that most Bitcoins weren't created in the first few hours is a good indicator that there are no time travellers. Or if travellers do exist, access to time travel has been restricted, or perhaps Bitcoins and p
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by cleaver 13y ago
I was just thinking of that... Also here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/rubber-duck-problem...
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by cleaver 13y ago
Whenever I see one of these graphs that is not zero-based, I'm forced to expend the unnecessary mental effort to decide whether the author is intentionally deceptive or merely stupid. Usually, to save the expenditure of this increasing
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by cleaver 13y ago
Unfortunately, "Don't do X" is better click bait than "You should think carefully when you want to do X". There will be cases where you want to do "catch {}" — you don't always have control over the e

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